What if Bonnie and Clyde met Frankenstein’s Monster and his Bride? That violent, passionate run-in would perhaps lead to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s next film, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley.

Much like Victor Frankenstein’s lab room tinkering, Professor Maggie injects doses of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic and James Whale’s campily brilliant sequel in an original treatment that brims with dark romance, cop-car chases, existential dread, saturated colours, desaturated makeup, and even some song-and-dance numbers.

With Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating adaptation of hitting Netflix in November, continues the party of the scientifically resurrected until next year.

What is The Bride! about?

While the original served as a direct sequel to 1931’s , starts off as a standalon

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